Albert Weinert

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Albert Weinert
Albert Weinert in his studio (JUL J0114948) (cropped).png
Born(1863-06-13)June 13, 1863
DiedNovember 29, 1947(1947-11-29) (aged 84)
Alma mater Royal Academy of Art and Applied Art
Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts
Known forSculpture

Weinert's 1893 Haymarket Martyrs' Monument, Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois Haymarket-martyrs-memorial-Forest-Home-Cemetery-IL.jpg
Weinert's 1893 Haymarket Martyrs' Monument , Forest Home Cemetery, Forest Park, Illinois

Albert Weinert (June 13, 1863 – November 29, 1947) was a German-American sculptor.

Born in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony, Weinert attended the Royal Academy of Art and Applied Art there [1] and then the Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium. [2]

In 1886, he emigrated to the United States, working first in San Francisco before moving to Chicago in 1892 to work on the World's Columbian Exposition where he met fellow sculptor Karl Bitter. After the fair, Weinert traveled with Bitter to New York City where he worked in Bitter's studio. He later relocated to Washington, D.C. where, in April 1894, he was hired to work on the design of the Thomas Jefferson Building of the Library of Congress. He was paid $10 per day (equivalent to $338in 2022) to oversee a crew of modelers and carvers. [3]

He died on November 29, 1947, in his home studio on Grand Concourse in the Bronx. [4]

Work

He produced the granite dolphins carved on the spandrels behind the bronze groups by Perry 1898 [5]

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References

  1. James, Juliet Helena Lumbard (1915). Sculpture of the Exposition Palaces and Courts; Descriptive Notes on the Art of the Statuary at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, San Francisco. H. S. Crocker Company. p. 91. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
  2. Catalogue of the International Exhibition of Contemporary Medals: The American Numismatic Society, March, 1910. American Numismatic Society. 1910. p. 356. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
  3. Cole, John Y.; Cole, John Young; Reed, Henry Hope; Small, Herbert (1997). The Library of Congress: The Art and Architecture of the Thomas Jefferson Building. W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN   978-0-393-04563-5 . Retrieved September 20, 2020.
  4. "ALBERT WEINERT, SCULPTOR, 84, DIES; Created Marble Group in City Hall of Records -- Did Many Statues and Memorials". The New York Times . December 1, 1947. Retrieved September 20, 2020.
  5. Small, Herbert, The Library of Congress: The Architecture and Decoration, Classical America, WW Norton & Company, New York, 1982 p. 36
  6. Nawrocki, Dennis Alan, Art in Detroit Public Places, Wayne State University Press, Detroit, Michigan, 1980 p. 27